Franco Volpi
Also Known As: Franco Zorzoli Volpi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Birthday: July 11, 1921
Deathday: January 01, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Johnny Stecchino
Overview: Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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The One Man Band
Overview: Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Overview: A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Duel of the Titans
Overview: Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Villini a sorpresa
Overview: A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-19
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I terribili sette
Overview: Some kids find by chance an infant in swaddling clothes left in a meadow. Initially, after having led in their lair, they think of selling it to a caravan of gypsies.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-07-04
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L'importanza d'essere Franco
Overview: Italian version of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Rocambole
Overview: In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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Perched on a Tree
Overview: Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-12
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Le tardone
Overview: A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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South Wind
Overview: Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Pastasciutta nel deserto
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Il mago per forza
Overview: In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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A Queen for Caesar
Overview: Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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